First login after install of MythDora 2.1 fails with "Could not find GNOME installation"
Apologies if this has been reported already but I could not find it in the forums.
I did a custom install of MythDora 2.1 where I selected one partition for / and another for /boot. I have data from a prior installation on a 3rd LVM partition which I did not want disturbed. I told it to install "Everything" and I selected the network addresses manually. I told it I had 2 cards, both IVTV, and selected NTSC, and NTP for time services.
The installation completed and it rebooted and asked me again some questions related to what kind of video drier I wanted, network addresses, etc. I told it Y for custom driver and re-entered my IP address information. Then it logged me out and brought up the Fedora login screen (GDM?). When I try to log in as the mythtv user it says "Could not find GNOME installation" and it brings up the failsafe xterm window. If I exit that and goto 'session' and select 'xfce4' as the session type, the same thing happens.
Any ideas on what I can do to resolve this?
You should never have to
You should never have to login for any reason. MythDora is already setup to autologin the user mythtv. But if you do exit and get to session, selecting xfce4 then choosing yes when it asks you to be default should work. See here.
http://mythdora.com/?q=node/402
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
Can't load xfce4 at login
You are correct, I don't have to actually login as the mythtv user, it will happen if I wait 30 seconds. Whether I wait or whether I type in the username myself does not affect whether I run into this issue or not though.
I did see the other post about this issue and I had already tried clickng on Session and selecting xfce4 as the session manager. Unfortunatly this does not resolve my problem.
I configured VNCSERER and ran startxfce4 on my vnc desktop. This brought up the window manager and the installation process proceeded to run mythtv-setup, mythfilldatabase, and then rebooted the machine.
After the reboot, same problme with the console screen; it logs in and reports "Could not find GNOME installation". This time I ran startxfce4 in the failsafe window and it brought up the desktop and ran mythfrontend.
I'm not sure what is broken here but for some reason I can't load xfce4 at login.
Make sure that in
Make sure that in /home/mythtv/.xsession that startxfce4 is there. If not add that and only that and then try it again. If it is there, then reboot into command shell instead of X. Then login as mythtv and startxfce4 from there and see if it throws up any errors. Not sure of your Linux skills so pardon me. To boot into command shell edit /etc/inittab and change this
id:5:initdefault:
to
id:3:initdefault:
save and reboot.
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
2nd install problem went away
I looked and startxfce4 was in my .xsession file. I was having video problems (nvidia driver was getting an exception at boot and some problem with "glx") so I decided to reinstall. I did two things differently this time:
a) I did not install everything, I just added the nvidia stuff to the list of packages to install
b) in the "white box install dialogue" when asked if I wanted to use a driver from a vendor I said 'y' instead of 'Y' (not sure if this prompt is case sensitive or not but last time it did not set me up to use the nvidia driver, at least I don't think it did).
This time it worked the way it was supposed to. After answering the networking questions again (I don't know why these are asked twice, once during the RedHat install and again during the "white screen" installation dialogue) it logged into the mythtv user succesfully and kicked off the mythtv-startup script.
The system appears to be working at this point. The reason I installed MythDora was that my FC4+Mythtv 0.19 system from ATRPMS was having recording problems with mythbackend taking 80-90% CPU and generating recordings with missing frames. So far the problem has not cropped up with the components put together by MythDora. Keeping my fingers crossed but this looks good.
Kudos to the creators/maintainers.